Nay for Kids
President Bush says he is against expanding SCHIP-public health insurance for low income kids-because the program is anti-capitalist and restricts choice. Why? Because some parents will switch their kids from private to (usually better) public coverage, and public coverage is socialist. . . So public insurance is anti-choice because it provides low income families with a preferable option?
What's the free market, again?
Tim O'Keefe
What's the free market, again?
Tim O'Keefe
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Bush has a very poor ideological justification for helping the private insurance sector to make more money. Take a look at this speech he made in Cleveland, OH:
'The immediate goal is to make sure there are more people on private insurance plans. I mean, people have access to health care in America. After all, you just go to an emergency room. The question is, will we be wise about how we pay for health care. I believe the best way to do so is to enable more people to have private insurance. And the reason I emphasize private insurance, the best health care plan -- the best health care policy is one that emphasizes private health. In other words, the opposite of that would be government control of health care'.
It's clear that he doesn't even understand why early, reliable access to health care is important, and assumes that anyone can just walk up to the emergency room.
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